Maritime and Photographic, Optical and Scientific Equipment with Antiques & Collectors' Items (Liverpool)

Lot 421

A collection of English and French early/mid-20th century books, including topographical travel, with a small collection of ephemera including booklets relating to English and French art galleries, a Folies-Bergère programme featuring Josephine Baker, Pepa Bonaff, and many other artists of the early 20th century.

Lot 422

A collection of French books, including 'Le Theatre De P.Corneille', 1st edition 1666, Paris, Georges Ohnet 'Noir Et Rose', 21st edition, Paul Ollendorff, Paris, 1887, Pierre Corneille 'Felix He Mon Theatre Choisi', vols. 1 and 2, 'Recit d'Une Soeur Souvenir de Famille', with other historical books and novels.

Lot 423

A late 19th/early 20th century hand written recipe book, with some cut-out printed examples.

Lot 424

A quantity of English and French books, including vols 1-4 of 'The History of the Great War', with various black and white plates, 'Verdun Argonne-Metz, 1914-1918', various other WWI related books, early/mid-20th century geography books, and French language books,

Lot 425

A small quantity of hardback books including a copy of 'Quarterly Review' from 1816, 'Oliver Cromwell' by John Buchan, 'Jane Austin Volume the First', 'Everyman's Companion to the Brontës', 'Anne Brontë' by Winifred Gerin, etc.

Lot 426

Antiquarian books to include 'A New and Accurate Description of All The Direct and Principal Crossroads in England and Wales', Daniel Patterson, 6th edition, printed by T.Carnan London 1784, 'The Spectator Volume the 3rd' printed for J and R Tonson & S Draper, 1753, 'The Library of Entertaining Knowledge, Architecture of Birds' 1831, and 'The Globe Edition Boswell's Life of Johnson', edited with an introduction by Mowbray Morris, published by McMillan and Co 1894 (4).

Lot 427

Antiquarian books to include 'The Natural History of Selborne' The Late Rev. Gilbert White, A. M. Fellow of Oriel College Oxford, to which are added the Naturalists Calendar, miscellaneous observations and poems a new edition with engravings, in two volumes, printed by T C Hansard, Fleet Street London, volumes one and two, 'The Bibelots: Herrick's Woman, Love and Flowers' edited by J Potter Briscoe F.R.H.S, published by Gay and Bird, 'Curiosities of Natural History' by Francis T Buckland, forty

Lot 428

CHARLES DICKENS; various novels to include 'The Life of Our Lord', printed by Associated Newspapers Ltd, 1934, six hardback books published by Chapman and Hall Ltd Covent Garden, to include 'The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club', with fifty-seven illustrations by Phiz, 'Christmas Stories from Household Words and All the Year Round' with twenty-three illustrations by Dalziel, 'Christmas Books' with twenty-eight illustrations by Barnard, 'The Adventures of Oliver Twist', with twenty-eight il

Lot 429

HENRY EPSTEIN; 'Into the Light', a collection of his writings, a limited edition of 2000, first published 1st January 2011. Footnote: Henry Epstein is the nephew of Brian Epstein.

Lot 430

LIVERPOOL'S SCROLL OF FAME; 'A Memorial of Soldiers and Sailors Who Gave Their Lives For Their Country In The Great War, 1914-1919', Pt 1, Commissioned Officers, edited by George Thompson, Liverpool; Quills Ltd, 25 Castle Street, 1920, with dedication, 'To the mothers of our fallen heroes, This scroll commemorates, who at the call of King and Country, left all that was dear to them, endured hardness, faced danger____Let those who come after see to it that his name is not forgotten', each page wi

Lot 431

NATURAL HISTORY; a quantity of mainly 19th and early 20th century books relating to animals and natural history to include, 'Notes and Jottings from Animal Life by the Late Frank Buckland', illustrated 1882, 'Animals of the Canadian Rockies', Dan McGowan (ex-library edition), a rebound copy of 'Elements of Natural History, being an introduction to the Systema Naturae of Linnaus 1801', illustrated, 'Wild Flowers of the Year', A. Pratt, containing forty-eight coloured plates of ninety-five flowers

Lot 432

SAMUEL PEPYS; 'Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys from his mis-cypher in the Pepysian Library, with a life and note by Richard Lord Braybrook deciphered with additional notes by Rev. Mynors Bright, six volumes, volume one 1875, each book has the plain book plate inside with the name Herbert Asquith, who was the second son of Prime minister Herbert Henry Asquith, volume two the back plates when positioned in the light show the signature and doodle by Cynthia Asquith (wife of Herbert, also B

Lot 433

SINGER AND BALDRIDGE; 'White Africans and Black', a single volume published in Nigeria, with several signatures of military personnel to the inside, with a letter from Charles Blythe.

Lot 434

'The Naturalists Cabinet of Interesting Sketches of Animal History', published James Cundee, 1806, six volumes, illustrative of the natures, dispositions, manners and habits of all the most remarkable quadrupeds, birds, fishes and amphibia, reptiles, etc in the known world, by Rev. Thomas Smith.

Lot 435

Two boxes of books to include many on Native Americans, Wild West, civil war, including 'The Native Americans', 'Native Americans in Early Photographs', Time Life books, etc, and Chinese History books to include 'Annals and Memoirs of the Court of Peking', 'Myths and Legends of China', etc (2).

Lot 436

Two boxes of vintage books to include novels, poetry, military interest, etc (2).

Lot 437

WILLIAM GLENVIL HALL; 'The Labour Party 1949' bearing the signatures of the Prime Minister of the time Clement Attlee and his party during a visit to Switzerland in the post-war era, signatures to include Clement Attlee and his wife Violet H. Attlee, Alice Bacon, Wilfrid Burke, Jack Carrin, Barbara Castle, Andrew Craig, Hugh Dalton, Harold Davies, Harry Earnshaw, Michael Foot, Edwin George Gooch, Jim Griffiths, Winifred Griffiths, Mark Hewitson, Harold Laski, Jean Mann, Lucy Middleton, Jack Mika

Lot 438

WRIGHT (J), THE FLOWER GROWERS GUIDE; div I, II, III, IV, V and VI, with coloured illustrations by Miss Gertrude Hamilton and Miss Marie Low, published by Virtue & Co, London.

A late 19th/early 20th century hand written recipe book, with some cut-out printed examples.

A quantity of English and French books, including vols 1-4 of 'The History of the Great War', with various black and white plates, 'Verdun Argonne-Metz, 1914-1918', various other WWI related books, early/mid-20th century geography books, and French language books,

A small quantity of hardback books including a copy of 'Quarterly Review' from 1816, 'Oliver Cromwell' by John Buchan, 'Jane Austin Volume the First', 'Everyman's Companion to the Brontës', 'Anne Brontë' by Winifred Gerin, etc.

HENRY EPSTEIN; 'Into the Light', a collection of his writings, a limited edition of 2000, first published 1st January 2011. Footnote: Henry Epstein is the nephew of Brian Epstein.

SINGER AND BALDRIDGE; 'White Africans and Black', a single volume published in Nigeria, with several signatures of military personnel to the inside, with a letter from Charles Blythe.

'The Naturalists Cabinet of Interesting Sketches of Animal History', published James Cundee, 1806, six volumes, illustrative of the natures, dispositions, manners and habits of all the most remarkable quadrupeds, birds, fishes and amphibia, reptiles, etc in the known world, by Rev. Thomas Smith.

Two boxes of books to include many on Native Americans, Wild West, civil war, including 'The Native Americans', 'Native Americans in Early Photographs', Time Life books, etc, and Chinese History books to include 'Annals and Memoirs of the Court of Peking', 'Myths and Legends of China', etc (2).

Two boxes of vintage books to include novels, poetry, military interest, etc (2).

WRIGHT (J), THE FLOWER GROWERS GUIDE; div I, II, III, IV, V and VI, with coloured illustrations by Miss Gertrude Hamilton and Miss Marie Low, published by Virtue & Co, London.